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Employee vs Manager Salary Query

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Problem

Business Context

Chewy’s people analytics team wants to identify compensation anomalies for review. An employee qualifies when their salary is strictly greater than the salary of their directly assigned manager.

Task

Write a PostgreSQL query using a self-join on employees to return every employee whose salary exceeds their manager’s salary.

Requirements

  1. Return the employee’s name and salary, along with the manager’s name and salary.
  2. Exclude employees without an assigned manager and employees whose salary is equal to or less than their manager’s salary.
  3. Order results by employee salary descending, then employee ID ascending.

Schema

employees
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTUnique employee identifier
employee_nameVARCHAR(100)Employee’s full name
salaryNUMERIC(10,2)Annual employee salary
manager_idINTReferences employees.employee_id for the direct manager
departmentVARCHAR(50)Organizational department
Tablesemployees
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